Improvement in farm-gates



A. I]. GRADY.

FARM-GATE. No.177, 7 1 O, I Patented May 23,1876.

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N-PEIERS. FKOTO-LQTHOGRAPHER, WASHINGTON, D. C.

UNITED STATES of lever.

PATENT CFFIGE.

ANDREW J. GRADY, OF PEOATONIGA, ILLINOIS.

-IIVIIPROVEMENT- m FARM-GATES.

Specification forming part of Lenm Patent No. 177,710, dated May 23, 1876; application filed To all whom it may concern: 1

Be it known that I, ANDREW J .GRADY, of Pecatonica, Winnebago county, Illinois, have invented anew and Improved Farm-Gate, of which the following is a specification:

The invention consists in combining a lever with a'latch, notched post, and pivoted bars, and providing braces, as hereinafter more particularl y described.

latch is provided with a side stud,'d, on which works the lever F, by means of the slot f, thus enabling the gate to be raised in front and unlatched simultaneously by lifting the free end In order thatthc. gate may be held at varying heights, I pivot the top strap H to February 21, 1876.

upper end of posts B, and to a stud h, work,- ing in slots at of second rail, and the bottom strap H to an eye, 71., that slides on pintle I,

the two straps being connected by'the pivoted bar G. By causing the lower strap H to be pivoted to lowest rail, and having side studd,

ot' the post 0 having notches E, andthe lever F having slot f, the latter pivoted on gate, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

2. The combination, with gate-pintle I, of the straps H H, connected by bar G and post B, having the end-curvedstud 71?, one of i said straps being pivoted to upper end of said post, and the other to a sliding eye, h as and for the purpose set fortln.

ANDREW J. GRADY. Witnesses: c GIDION D. ROGERS,

GASSIUS O. GRADY. 

